Alex Aldridge

May 18, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

Ashar Qureshi is vice-chairman of Renaissance Group, the Russia-based investment bank. ?No single event, even a major one, can throw emerging markets off course anymore,? he says.

By Alex Aldridge

4 minute read

August 07, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

If law firms hope that announcing their worst financial results since the early '90s will cut them more slack with clients, they'd better think again

By Alex Aldridge

5 minute read

August 25, 2009 | Law.com

Arsenal Football Club has appointed a former MTV general counsel as its first-ever in-house lawyer. Former MTV Networks Europe lawyer Svenja Geissmar will begin her new role as GC at the Premier League club on Sept. 21. The hire is the culmination of a recruitment process that began in May, following a recommendation from Slaughter and May partner Nigel Boardman -- who regularly handles corporate matters for Arsenal -- that the club produces sufficient legal work to merit the employment of a full-time in-house adviser.

By Alex Aldridge

2 minute read

August 10, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Telecom Italia's general counsel Antonino Cusimano is keeping a tight rein on two major company scandals. But throughout the fallout, he found time to revamp the giant telecoms' legal department.

By Alex Aldridge

5 minute read

June 01, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Dell, ING, CMA, and LV= are all reviewing outside legal providers.

By Alex Aldridge, Jeremy Hodges, and Emma Sadowski

5 minute read

July 06, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

A World Cup contract helps a Glasgow-based energy company power into the FTSE 100.

By Alex Aldridge

4 minute read

February 26, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

According to a recent client satisfaction report, in-house counsel felt neglected by their law firms in favor of more lucrative bank deals. And now that such work has dried up, many companies may be less than receptive to firms' renewed advances. One consultant says that after firms have "gone off with the bigger and bustier blonde, you've got to expect the redhead to be a bit iffy when you come back with your tail between your legs." In-house counsel also complain of too much arrogance and too little trust.

By Alex Aldridge

7 minute read

January 21, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

Legal Week's Alex Aldridge talks to Financial Times general counsel Tim Bratton about networking, the value of peer feedback and the role of social media for the modern legal chief.

By Alex Aldridge

5 minute read

August 07, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

If law firms are hoping that announcing their worst financial results since the early 1990s recession will cut them more slack with cost-conscious clients, they had better think again. From discussions of clients' impressions of profits generated at major U.K. law firms, it's clear that general counsel believe that large law firms are still doing very nicely by most yardsticks.

By Alex Aldridge

5 minute read

February 10, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

"Good lawyers and good consultants do pretty much the same thing: We come up with creative solutions to problems," says Jeremy Barton, who was recently appointed general counsel at leading global management adviser Boston Consulting Group. So how does Barton, whose appointment at BCG was preceded by 10 years working in-house at Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young, see himself -- as a lawyer or a consultant? "I sometimes refer to myself as a legal business adviser," he says.

By Alex Aldridge

6 minute read